Education
He was educated at University College Galway and University College Cork.
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Oven Lane and Other Poems
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Going by Water
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Going by Water
(The same again, the old bell says — the roofs, the pillow...)
The same again, the old bell says — the roofs, the pillowed heads, the dreams, the tides — the same but not the same, this winter morning here. In his beautifully conceived, meticulously assembled new collection, Michael Coady, laureate of the home place, ruminates on and records the traces left by our lives. From the rhapsody of now' through words of love and grief, / the earth's embrace, its constancy'Going by Water celebrates enduring values and the mysterious triumphs of ordinary experience and everyday ritual. It recounts inherited as well as overheard and re-imagined stories. It ranges from the river traditions of his native town to take in a new Ireland and the newfound locales of Paris and beyond with their communities of the living and dead. While it sounds elegiac notes it pulses to the beat of music as a portal to transcendence. Symphonic in its orchestration, integrating poetry, prose narratives and the author's photography,Going by Water elicits from its catchment a universal human measure. WithAll Souls andOne Another it forms a trilogy unique in our literature.
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Michael Coady
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He is a former Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. His poetry and short stories have been included in many anthologies. Bursaries from the Arts Council have enabled him to travel in the United States of America and Newfoundland.and he has held a residency in the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris.
His work is noted for its celebration of place, particularly his home town and the people who live there.
lieutenant has also been praised for its compassion and for its successful fusion of literary language with the reported demotic of his community. Coady has mined poetic gold from the small, intimate, urban community (surrounded by rural countryside) to which he belongs.
His literary strategy follows that of Patrick Kavanagh in celebrating the local and parochial.
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Going by Water
(The same again, the old bell says — the roofs, the pillow...)
- Oven Lane
- Oven Lane and Other Poems
- Going by Water
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Going by Water
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Aosdána]
He is a member of Aosdána.
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Ireland